Madiba

The world probably needed yet another retelling of Nelson Mandela’s life about as much as we need another Marvel movie, but if there’s a good story expect many different versions. This miniseries follows Mandela from childhood to presidency, but focuses perhaps more than other similar projects on how the South African state implemented apartheid, and how both the government and the ANC struggled as they tried to achieve their wildly different goals. Laurence Fishburne exudes gravitas, even though he’s far from convincing as a young Mandela, but the production as a whole is a little too mediocre to have the impact it desires.

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I studied film at Halmstad University and practical filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Now I’m a critic for the Swedish daily Aftonbladet. Opinions expressed on this personal website are solely mine and not related to Aftonbladet.